Donate Life Organ and Tissue Donation Blog℠

June 7, 2013 - - - - 118,466 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST

96,868 waiting for a kidney

15,776 wait-listed for a liver

1,1865 waiting for a pancreas

2,097 needing a Kidney-Pancreas

3,515 waiting for a life-saving heart

1,662 waiting for a lung

46 waiting for a heart-lung

267 waiting for small bowel

One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives

One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals

You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HERE

Monday, April 13, 2009

Here is a fantastic blog "I am. Are you?" by Donate Life Illinois that is also chronicling donation efforts nationally and with in Illinois

Check it out!

http://iamareyou.wordpress.com

1. Register with your State's organ & tissue donor registry. To learn how: www.organdonor.gov
2. Speak with your family, friends and colleagues about your decision to be a donor.
3. Encourage your workplace ,church, schools, neighborhood organizations, and city to adopt donation as a mission.
4. Encourage your elected officials to support donation legislation.
5. Speak at your local High School, College or University. Ask them to participate in the National Donation Campus Challenge. www.organdonor/campus.gov
6. Participate in events sponsored by your local organ procurement organization.
ONE organ donor can SAVE the lives of up to 8 people
ONE tissue donor can SAVE / ENHANCE the lives of up to 50 people. Help our returning solders from Iraq and Afghanistan who require tissue for reconstructive surgery
PLEASE GO TO DONATE LIFE LINKS BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO BECOME A DONOR IN YOUR STATE.